Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander,” bias,” and even treason.” He has examined the Bush administration’s policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He’s even watched Fox News. A lot.And, in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying liars. Al destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight. Using the Right’s own words against them, he takes on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues, in the most talked about book of the year.Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, Liessticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding.

Al Franken is the #1 bestselling author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations; Why Not Me?; Oh, the Things I Know!; and I-'m Good Enough, I-'m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me! In 2003, he served as a Fellow with Harvard-'s Kennedy School of Government at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.